DEVIL’S CLEAVAGE

April 8th

Tuesday @ 7:00 pm
Director: George Kuchar
Runtime: 130 minutes
USA 1975

 

 

Partial inspiration for Zippy the Pinhead and eulogized by the NY Times as “a national treasure,” George Kuchar, with his twin brother, Mike, practically invented the campy, no-budget, anti-professional, tasteless, gender-bending underground style later embraced by John Waters and others.  He made over 500 films in his career. Tonight we feature two of his best: The Devil’s Cleavage is a farcical send-up of Douglas Sirk-style melodramas, made “as if Sam Fuller and Sternberg had collaborated in shooting a script by Tennessee Williams and Russ Meyer” (Chuck Kleinhans, Jump Cut).  

Screening is free and open to the public.

Paramount Theatre, Bright Family Screening Room, Emerson College